geneva Joshua:3-4

geneva@Joshua:3:1 @ And Joshua rose early in the morning; and they removed from Shittim, and came to (note:)Which according to the Hebrews was in March, about 40 days after Moses' death.(:note) Jordan, he and all the children of Israel, and lodged there before they passed over.

geneva@Joshua:3:2 @ And it came to pass after (note:)Which was given to prepare food (Jos_1:11).(:note) three days, that the officers went through the host;

geneva@Joshua:3:3 @ And commanded the people, saying, When ye see the Arke of the couenat of the Lord your God, and the Priestes of the Leuites bearing it, ye shall depart from your place, and goe after it.

geneva@Joshua:3:4 @ Yet there shalbe a space betweene you and it, about two thousande cubites by measure: ye shall not come neere vnto it, that ye may knowe the way, by the which ye shall goe: for ye haue not gone this way in times past.

geneva@Joshua:3:5 @ (Nowe Ioshua had saide vnto the people, Sanctifie your selues: for to morowe the Lord will doe wonders among you)

geneva@Joshua:3:6 @ Also Ioshua spake vnto the Priestes, saying, Take vp the Arke of the couenant, and goe ouer before the people: so they tooke vp the Arke of the couenant, & went before the people.

geneva@Joshua:3:7 @ Then the Lorde saide vnto Ioshua, This day will I begin to magnifie thee in the sight of all Israel, which shall knowe, that as I was with Moses, so will I be with thee.

geneva@Joshua:3:8 @ And thou shalt command the priests that bear the ark of the covenant, saying, When ye are come to the brink of the water of Jordan, ye shall stand still (note:)Even in the channel where the stream had run, (Jos_3:17)(:note) in Jordan.

geneva@Joshua:3:9 @ Then Ioshua said vnto the children of Israel, Come hither, and heare the wordes of the Lord your God.

geneva@Joshua:3:10 @ And Joshua said, (note:)By this miracle in dividing the water.(:note) Hereby ye shall know that the living God [is] among you, and [that] he will without fail drive out from before you the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Hivites, and the Perizzites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Jebusites.

geneva@Joshua:3:11 @ Beholde, the Arke of the couenant of the Lorde of all the worlde passeth before you into Iorden.

geneva@Joshua:3:12 @ Now therefore take you (note:)Who would set up twelve stones in remembrance of the benefit.(:note) twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, out of every tribe a man.

geneva@Joshua:3:13 @ And assoone as the soles of the feete of the Priestes (that beare the Arke of the Lorde God the Lorde of all the worlde) shall stay in the waters of Iorden, the waters of Iorden shall be cut off: for the waters that come from aboue, shall stande still vpon an heape.

geneva@Joshua:3:14 @ Then when the people were departed from their tentes to goe ouer Iorden, the Priestes bearing the Arke of the Couenant, went before people.

geneva@Joshua:3:15 @ And as they that bare the ark were come unto Jordan, and the feet of the priests that bare the ark were dipped in the brim of the water, (for Jordan overfloweth all his (note:)Because the river was accustomed at this time to be full, the miracle is so much greater.(:note) banks all the time of harvest,)

geneva@Joshua:3:16 @ Then the waters that came downe from aboue, stayed and rose vpon an heape and departed farre from the citie of Adam, that was beside Zaretan: but the waters that came downe towarde the Sea of the wildernes, euen the salt Sea, failed, and were cut off: so the people went right ouer against Iericho.

geneva@Joshua:3:17 @ And the priests that bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD stood (note:)Either tarrying till the people were past, or as some read, sure, as though they had been on dry land.(:note) firm on dry ground in the midst of Jordan, and all the Israelites passed over on dry ground, until all the people were passed clean over Jordan.

geneva@Joshua:4:1 @ And when all the people were wholy gone ouer Iorden, (after the Lord had spoken vnto Ioshua, saying,

geneva@Joshua:4:2 @ Take you twelue me out of the people, out of euery tribe a man,

geneva@Joshua:4:3 @ And command ye them, saying, Take you hence out of the midst of Jordan, out of the place where the priests' feet stood (note:)As in (Jos_3:17).(:note) firm, twelve stones, and ye shall carry them over with you, and leave them in the Meaning, the place where they would camp. lodging place, where ye shall lodge this night.

geneva@Joshua:4:4 @ Then Ioshua called the twelue men, whome he had prepared of the children of Israel, out of euery tribe a man,

geneva@Joshua:4:5 @ And Ioshua said vnto them, Go ouer before the Arke of the Lorde your God, euen through the middes of Iorden, and take vp euery man of you a stone vpon his shoulder acccording vnto the nomber of the tribes of the children of Israel,

geneva@Joshua:4:6 @ That this may be a sign among you, [that] when your (note:)God commands that not only we ourselves profit by this wonderful work, but that our posterity may know the cause of it, and glorify his Name.(:note) children ask [their fathers] in time to come, saying, What [mean] ye by these stones?

geneva@Joshua:4:7 @ Then ye may answere them, That the waters of Iorden were cut off before the Arke of the couenant of the Lord: for when it passed through Iorden, the waters of Iorden were cut off: therefore these stones are a memoriall vnto the children of Israel for euer.

geneva@Joshua:4:8 @ Then ye children of Israel did euen so as Ioshua had commanded, & tooke vp twelue stones out of the mids of Iorden as ye Lord had said vnto Ioshua, according to the nomber of the tribes of the children of Israel, & caried them away with them vnto the lodging, & layd them down there.

geneva@Joshua:4:9 @ And Joshua set up (note:)Besides the twelve stones that were carried by the tribes and set up in Gilgal.(:note) twelve stones in the midst of Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests which bare the ark of the covenant stood: and they are there unto this day.

geneva@Joshua:4:10 @ So the Priests, which bare ye Arke, stoode in the middes of Iorden, vntill euery thing was finished that ye Lorde had comanded Ioshua to say vnto the people, according to all that Moses charged Ioshua: then the people hasted & went ouer.

geneva@Joshua:4:11 @ And it came to pass, when all the people were clean passed over, that the ark of the LORD passed over, and the priests, (note:)Meaning, in the presence or sight of the people.(:note) in the presence of the people.

geneva@Joshua:4:12 @ And the sonnes of Reuben, & the sonnes of Gad, and halfe the tribe of Manasseh went ouer before the children of Israel armed, as Moses had charged them.

geneva@Joshua:4:13 @ About forty thousand prepared for war passed over before the (note:)That is, before the Ark.(:note) LORD unto battle, to the plains of Jericho.

geneva@Joshua:4:14 @ That day the Lord magnified Ioshua in the sight of all Israel, and they feared him, as they feared Moses all dayes of his life.

geneva@Joshua:4:15 @ And the Lord spake vnto Ioshua, saying,

geneva@Joshua:4:16 @ Command the priests that bear the (note:)Because the ark testified God's presence, and the tables of the Law contained in it signified God's will toward his people.(:note) ark of the testimony, that they come up out of Jordan.

geneva@Joshua:4:17 @ Ioshua therefore commanded the Priests, saying, Come ye vp out of Iorden.

geneva@Joshua:4:18 @ And when the Priests that bare the Arke of the couenant of ye Lorde were come vp out of the middes of Iorden, and assoone as the soles of the Priests feete were set on the dry land, the waters of Iorde returned vnto their place, & flowed ouer all the bankes thereof, as they did before.

geneva@Joshua:4:19 @ And the people came up out of Jordan on the tenth [day] of the (note:)Called Abib or Nisan, containing part of March and part of April.(:note) first month, and encamped in Gilgal, in the east border of Jericho.

geneva@Joshua:4:20 @ Also the twelue stones, which they tooke out of Iorden, did Ioshua pitch in Gilgal.

geneva@Joshua:4:21 @ And he spake vnto ye childre of Israel, saying, When your children shall aske their fathers in time to come, & say, What meane these stones?

geneva@Joshua:4:22 @ Then ye shall shew your children, and say, Israel came ouer this Iorden on dry land:

geneva@Joshua:4:23 @ For the Lord your God dryed vp ye waters of Iorden before you, vntill ye were gone ouer, as the Lord your God did the red Sea, which hee dryed vp before vs, till we were gone ouer,

geneva@Joshua:4:24 @ That all the people of the (note:)God's benefits serve as a further condemnation to the wicked, and stir up his own to reverence and obey him.(:note) earth might know the hand of the LORD, that it [is] mighty: that ye might fear the LORD your God for ever.

geneva@Joshua:5:1 @ And it came to pass, when all the kings of the (note:)The Amorites were on both sides of Jordan, of which two kings were slain already on the side toward Moab.(:note) Amorites, which [were] on the side of Jordan westward, and all the kings of the Canaanites, which [were] by the sea, heard that the LORD had dried up the waters of Jordan from before the children of Israel, until we were passed over, that their heart melted, neither was there spirit in them any more, because of the children of Israel.

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